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The Eagles added their first free agent of the offseason Monday by signing inside linebacker Brad Jones, a 28-year-old, six-year veteran who was released by the Green Bay Packers last month. Jones, 6-foot-3 and 242 pounds, signed a two-year contract and will provide depth at a position that sorely needs it. The Eagles will return starters Mychal Kendricks and DeMeco Ryans, although Ryans is coming off his second ruptured Achilles tendon. Emmanuel Acho and Casey Matthews were the top reserves last season, and Matthews is a pending free agent. Najee Goode and Travis Long, who were expected to contribute last year, are also coming off season-ending injuries. That means Jones, a...

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The Eagles added their first free agent of the offseason Monday by signing inside linebacker Brad Jones, a 28-year-old, six-year veteran who was released by the Green Bay Packers last month. Jones, 6-foot-3 and 242 pounds, signed a two-year contract...

When you win 10 games in the NFL, you usually would prefer to keep your core group together and build around it.
But in the case of the Philadelphia Eagles, there could be as many as nine new starters next season, thanks to a combination of expiring...

— This could have been Mychal Kendricks' breakout year, leading to the first of many Pro Bowl berths and to his eventual coronation as the perennial most valuable player on the Philadelphia Eagles' defense.
All the tools are there, and he was coming...

— Getting ready to play a team as talented as the Dallas Cowboys should be motivation enough, Philadelphia Eagles coach Chip Kelly suggested on Monday. All the extra stuff about the game being on Thanksgiving and the Cowboys being a longtime NFC East...

— Wednesday's move to place guard Todd Herremans on the injured reserve list made it official. The Philadelphia Eagles, who had the same offensive linemen start all 17 games last season, will not have that group together for any games this year.
And...

— Long before Chip Kelly ever arrived as the head coach, the Philadelphia Eagles employed a defensive system in which the safeties were never defined. Both had to be interchangeable and often were.
That's one of the few things Kelly never bothered to...

It's not easy writing an article about Connor Barwin, because every time you ask him a question about himself, he ends up talking about somebody else.
Ask him about his dominating, 3 ½-sack game last week against the Carolina Panthers and the...

OFFENSE: B
Balanced attack that produced 462 yards and 26 first downs was kept from being perfect by two more interceptions and some red-zone failures that this team cannot afford against better competition these next three weeks.
DEFENSE: C-
A...

Nobody knows exactly how long Nick Foles will be sidelined, but one thing is clear — Mark Sanchez will be the Eagles' starting quarterback for the foreseeable future, starting with Monday night's game against the Carolina Panthers.According to reports,...

— Just when the Philadelphia Eagles thought they might start to be getting stronger again, another key player went down.
Inside linebacker DeMeco Ryans, the leader and glue of the defense, wasn't able to finish Sunday's game with a groin strain. Although...

A national television audience saw Malcolm Jenkins' game-changing interception in the Philadelphia Eagles' dramatic 30-27 victory over the Indianapolis Colts on Monday night. But even though that might have been the biggest play of the game, it was the...

— Fortunately for the Philadelphia Eagles, they're headquartered at the NovaCare Complex, named for and equipped by the popular medical group that also treats thousands of other citizens across the region, including dozens per day right there in the...

There would be pressure on any player making his first NFL start, but there's a little more on the line this Sunday for the Eagles' David Molk and Matt Tobin. It's not as if they'll be lining up for the Jacksonville Jaguars and nobody cares. And it's...

— How quickly the Philadelphia Eagles can get to the point where their defense is difficult or impossible to predict will determine how quickly they can get back into the true championship contention they enjoyed for the most part from 2000-08.
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Coach Chip Kelly was not joking when he said he had grown attached to his Philadelphia Eagles players.Sunday, he and the front office brought back eight who didn't make their 53-man roster, which had to be established the day before, for their practice...

— Four tight ends, three running backs, nine offensive linemen, nine linebackers, four safeties and seven defensive linemen. All of those numbers represent concentration shifts in the roster of the Philadelphia Eagles from the end of last season to the...

— Each NFL season beings an assortment of puzzles and surprises.
For the Philadelphia Eagles, the first of each became apparent the minute they officially announced their initial 53-man roster of 2014 on Saturday.
Among the notable names not on it was...